"fifty people were killed in the incident. Now we are carrying out rescue operations," Bishwo Raj Pokharel, a senior police official involved in the rescue operation at TIA, told Xinhua news agency.
The 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft, with 71 people on board, was flying from Dhaka to Kathmandu. It veered off the runway and caught fire while landing at 2.20 p.m., said TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur.
All flights in and out of the Tribhuvan International Airport were cancelled. The airport was reopened later.
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